Chapeau Kriek

Bottle. Nice black cherry and musty aroma. Cloudy dark red color with minimal head. Sweet-tart cherry flavor with light mustiness. Nice flavor - just on the edge of being syrupy. A nice beer for those who like sweet "lambics" but traditionalists will hate it.

25 cL bottle. Pours slight hazy red with a brownish hue, small lacing bobble head with pink colour. Dry cherry aroma. Fruity cherry flavour, medium sweetness. Goes into a decent citric cherry finish, maintaining a lot fruit flavour.

[Sampled in june 2004.] This it what they call an industrial product. Where is the lambic??? Ohh, it’s forgotten, but we’ve got a lot of kriek additives. Like bublegum for teens. But I got it on a very hot summerday after a footballmatch and found it refreshing. Sorry!

Cherryskin red is clouded by light yeast and darker brown particulates in the body. A medium pink head forms, slowly diminishing under the weight of sediment. The aroma is of week old marzipan residue, artificial cherry juice, light yeast and an almond liqueur - it throws hints the way of Amaretto, though that smells much more desirable. The flavor is cloyingly sweet, cherry dominant, with sugar at the ouposts and filling gaps in between. No bitterness, very light tartness, mild acidity and a fruit-juice concoction that is nearly too offensive to continue drinking. Sour cherries linger in a finish that is quickly overtaken by an artificial sweetness. Mostly amateurish, definitely not a lambic. Even high acidity couldn’t save this.

Bottle, August 07. Strong cherries arom, but seems to be artifficial. Shinny, slightly hazy burgundy-red color and a medium, bubbly, white head. Sweet, syrupy, cherries-raspberries flavor with a faint, tart-acidic touch and a sweet ending. Artifficial, unidimensional and boring. Medium mouthfeel, a bit too syrupy and cloying. A mediocre, artifficial, forgetable juicy beer.

I didn’t note an overwhelming sweetness, so I guess this is the right place for this rating. This $5.79 bottled brew from a bottle shop in South Bend, IN poured a head of foamy pink hued medium sized bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a hazy with fine particulate pink hued colored body and a poor lacing. The strong aroma was cherry. The dry mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The smooth flavor contained notes of cherry. Delicious and one I would certainly buy again.

Not quite what I was expecting from a cherry lambic. The taste of tart cherries is here, but there was another flavor. That I could describes as unshelled Walnuts which doesn’t really go well with this. There are better ones out there.

The aroma has cherries, nuts, sugar, and chemicals. The appearance is red with a thin head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. Overall it stinks.